It was a dark and rainy morning in Rome, Italy. The gravel streets formed rain puddles the size of Sicily and canaries sung melancholy songs due to the inclement weather. Not too far away from the city lived a man of the name Galen of Pergamum (originally from Greece) whom the neighbors feared and rejected for his strange living habits. While everyone was inside their homes with their loved ones, for Greek physician, Galen of Pergamum, this type of day meant he had all day to conduct various vivisections on the neighborhood pigs. No one in the city of Rome knew how he got his test subjects. All they knew was that he cut animals open without anesthetics to satisfy his curiosity of the human anatomy. Since it was considered illegal and punishable by hanging to …show more content…
Scientists can study the disease’s epidemiology, to find the underlying causes and risk factors that are associated with the disease. Also by the study of molecular epidemiology, researchers can analyze cellular and molecular characteristics to find out the reasons why people suffer from certain disease. Another alternative is to study patients over an extended period of time to see if prescribed diet or change in sedentary (sitting) lifestyle have an impact in the disease. For example a patient with heart problem could be prescribed a low fat diet and regular exercise to slow down the disease. Lastly, the use of In- Vitro Testing. This is testing done with cell culture techniques; they can be stem cells to mimic a particular tissue, such as skin or can be human tissue. If done, no more rabbits would suffer from Draize testing or other testing, because instead of putting the chemicals onto the rabbit, the scientist would be putting it on the In- Vitro cells, tissue. This test is less expensive and more reliable because it deals with human cells instead of animal cells that give opposite reactions